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Follow me on twitter at <b>@johnrlottjr</b> . Please e-mail questions to <b>johnrlott@crimeresearch.org.</b>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (John Lott)Blogger13342125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-5346935582293153739Thu, 17 Aug 2017 01:21:00 +00002017-08-16T21:21:24.298-04:00op-edAt The Hill: The media couldn't be more blatant in distorting Trump's words on Charlottesville<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I have a new piece at The Hill about how the media is completely distorting what Trump has said about&nbsp;Charlottesville. &nbsp;The piece starts this way:<br /><blockquote><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/media/346878-the-media-couldnt-be-more-blatant-in-distorting-trumps-words-on">Has the media ever so deliberately and consistently misinterpreted what a president said?</a>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>It certainly seems as if the media finally found its proof that President Trump is a racist. ABC News’ <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-lashes-alt-left-charlottesville-fine-people-sides/story?id=49235032">coverage</a> was all too typical:&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote><strong><em>Trump quickly blamed both sides for the conflict, adding that there were "very fine people" among both the protesters — which included white supremacists and white nationalists — and the counter protesters.</em></strong>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote><strong><em>"I think there is blame on both sides. You look at both sides. I think there is blame on both sides," Trump said today. "You had some very bad people in that group. You also had some very fine people on both sides," he added.</em></strong>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>With wall-to-wall news coverage repeating this misreading of Trump’s statement, it’s not too surprising that politicians from both parties quickly condemned the “very fine people” comment. NBC’s headline read: “Democratic, Republican Lawmakers Decry Trump’s Latest Charlottesville Remarks.” Ohio Gov. John Kasich attacked Trump: “This is terrible. The President of the United States needs to condemn these kinds of hate groups. The president has to totally condemn this."&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>Does anyone even listen to comments anymore before commenting on them?<br />When it comes to the president, do politicians just take reporters at their word?<br />But Trump never said that the white supremacists and neo-Nazis were “very fine people.” He said that there two different types of people protesting the taking down of the Robert E. Lee statue – the racists (“some very bad people in that group”), and people who thought that for the sake of history it was important not to take down the statue.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>Here is Trump’s own explanation <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article167364607.html">from his press conference</a>.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote><strong><em>Trump: “And you had people, and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists.</em></strong>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote><strong><em>“OK? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.” . . .</em></strong>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote><strong><em>Reporter: “You were saying the press has treated white nationalists unfairly? (inaudible) understand what you're saying.”</em></strong>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote><strong><em>Trump: “No, no. There were people in that rally, and I looked the night before. If you look, they were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. I'm sure in that group there were some bad ones. The following day, it looked like they had some rough, bad people – neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you want to call them.</em></strong>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote><strong><em>“But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest and very legally protest, because you know – I don't know if you know, they had a permit. The other group didn't have a permit.”</em></strong>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>President Trump made it very clear that his comment did not pertain to “neo-Nazis and the white nationalists.” When a reporter misinterpreted his very clear statement, Trump again made it clear that the bad people were the “neo-Nazis, white nationalists.” . . .</blockquote>The rest of the piece is <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/media/346878-the-media-couldnt-be-more-blatant-in-distorting-trumps-words-on"><strong>available here</strong></a>.</div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/08/at-hill-media-couldnt-be-more-blatant.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-2813547339997969905Wed, 16 Aug 2017 22:02:00 +00002017-08-16T21:20:10.264-04:00RadioOn The Morning Show with Brian and Leland to discuss Kevin Hassett's nomination to the Council of Economic Advisers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I was on&nbsp;The Morning Show with Brian and Leland in Brownsville, Texas and central Texas to discuss Kevin Hassett's nomination to chair President Trump's Council of Economic Advisers. &nbsp;Unfortunately, the beginning part of this interview is missing where we talked briefly about the role of the&nbsp;Council of Economic Advisers in everything from taxes to regulations to even crime.<br />(Tuesday, August 15, 2017, from 8:06 to 8:16 AM)<br />Audio <b><a href="https://crimeresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/08-15-17-dr-john-lott.mp3">available here</a></b>.</div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/08/on-morning-show-with-brian-and-leland.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-6145970429732333031Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:30:00 +00002017-08-14T08:30:53.558-04:00Kevin Hassettop-edIn the Washington Times: Confirming Kevin Hassett to chair the Council of Economic Advisers is prudent and necessary<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Kevin Hassett's confirmation to chair the Council of Economic Advisers is important not just taxes but also for a whole range of other issues, including crime. &nbsp;The Council of Economic Advisers touches on every issue that economists have done research on. &nbsp;From the beginning of my piece in the Washington Times:<br /><blockquote><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/13/kevin-hassett-should-be-confirmed-for-council-of-e/">Even if the Senate votes for confirmation on the very day that it returns from recess, a record 112 days will have passed since President Trump nominated Kevin Hassett to chair the Council of Economic Advisers.</a> Since 1980, the average time to confirm other Council chairmen is 25 days. For incoming administrations, the average confirmation period is 13 days. The longest was 25 days.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>A world-recognized expert on taxation, Mr. Hassett has been stuck on the sidelines despite the administration’s big goals this year on tax reform. Mr. Hassett is the one person who can help make the different parts of a tax bill fit together and can explain it to the media.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>White House chief economic adviser Gary Cohn has reportedly told associates that time is running out for tax reform. He worries that if tax reform doesn’t get done by the end of the year, it likely won’t happen at all. Missing key players such as Mr. Hassett doesn’t help. And Democrats are threatening to delay Mr. Hassett’s vote much longer.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>The delay reflects only Democrats’ unwillingness to confirm any Trump nominees. Mr. Hassett is not a controversial pick. .&nbsp;. .</blockquote>The rest of the piece is <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/13/kevin-hassett-should-be-confirmed-for-council-of-e/"><strong>available here</strong></a>.</div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/08/in-washington-times-confirming-kevin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-1036683749943351633Tue, 08 Aug 2017 18:21:00 +00002017-08-08T14:21:44.840-04:00op-edNew in the Chicago Tribune: How Democrats keep guns in the hands of the rich<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Dr. John Lott has a new piece in the Chicago Tribune today (it will be in the print edition tomorrow). &nbsp;The piece starts this way:<br /><blockquote><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-guns-permits-democrats-rich-lott-perspec-0808-jm-20170807-story.html">When it comes to voting rights, any obstacles outrage liberals; even free government-issued IDs are viewed as disenfranchising poor and disproportionately black people.</a> But when it comes to the right to own a gun for self-defense, liberals don't hesitate to pile on fees, ID requirements, expensive training and onerous background checks.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>That's too bad, because many law-abiding citizens in crime-ridden neighborhoods really do need a gun for self-defense. Since poor, urban blacks are the most likely victims of violent crime, there is little doubt that they stand to benefit the most from owning guns. Research, including my own, has demonstrated this.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>A new report from the Crime Prevention Research Center shows that the average fee for a concealed handgun permit is $67, but it is much higher in the most Democratic states. Each 10-percentage-point increase in a state's presidential vote for <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/politics-government/government/hillary-clinton-PEPLT007433-topic.html" id="PEPLT007433" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a> was associated with an additional $30 in the concealed handgun permit fee. In California, where Clinton won by about 30 points, fees can be as high as $385 for just two years. In New York City, where she won by 60 points, a three-year permit costs $430.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>In addition to prohibitive fees, some blue states — California, Illinois — require four times as many training hours as the national average, adding hundreds of dollars to the cost of obtaining a concealed-carry license. In California counties, the mandated cost of training can run from $250 to more than $1,000. Compare heavily Democratic Illinois, where the cost of permit and training runs over $450, with neighboring Republican Indiana where the total cost for everything is $50.</blockquote><aside class="trb_ar_sponsoredmod trb_barker_mediaconductor" data-adloader-networktype="mediaconductor" data-load-method="trb.vendor.mediaconductor.init" data-load-type="method" data-mediaconductor-processed="true" data-role="delayload_item" data-screen-size="desktop" data-vendor-mc="" data-withinviewport-options="bottomOffset=100"><div class="tlod"><blockquote>In some states, the poor need not apply even if they are willing to pay these costs. In the Democratic-leaning states of California, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island, as well as the District of Columbia, people have to demonstrate need for a permit to a local public official.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>Los Angeles County illustrates how this discretion results in only a select few wealthy and powerful individuals getting permits. If Los Angeles County authorized permits at the same rate as the rest of the country, it would have around 600,000 permit holders.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>Instead, only 226 permits have been issued within a population of about 7.9 million adults, and many of them have gone to politically connected individuals, including judges. Indeed, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca earned a reputation for awarding permits to people who gave him campaign donations or generous gifts.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>While women make up 36 percent of permit holders nationally, they only got 7 percent of the permits in Los Angeles County. Although almost half the county's population is Hispanic, only 6.5 percent of permits were given to Hispanics. Few were given to blacks.<br />In New York City, permits seem to go only to a politically approved segment of the rich and powerful. This includes union heads and people such as <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/politics-government/donald-trump-PEBSL000163-topic.html" id="PEBSL000163" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>, Laurence Rockefeller, Howard Stern and Robert De Niro. Those who aren't politically approved — Fox News' John Stossel, for instance — don't get permits no matter how much evidence they provide about death threats they've received.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>Are influential individuals really the only ones who have legitimate concerns for their safety?&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>Democrats continue to fight for higher fees. In Connecticut, . . .</blockquote>The rest of the piece is <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-guns-permits-democrats-rich-lott-perspec-0808-jm-20170807-story.html"><strong>available here</strong></a>.</div></aside></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/08/new-in-chicago-tribune-how-democrats.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-6535507415792407204Tue, 08 Aug 2017 18:20:00 +00002017-08-08T14:20:15.122-04:00pseudonymObama’s Attorney General Used Fake Identity To Hide Her Involvement In Development of Clinton Investigation E-Mails talking points<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">From the Daily Caller:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/07/here-is-the-alias-email-account-loretta-lynch-used-as-attorney-general/">Like her predecessor, Eric Holder, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch used an email alias to conduct government business, The Daily Caller has confirmed.</a>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Several of Lynch’s emails were included in&nbsp;<a href="http://media.aclj.org/pdf/Clinton-Lynch-Documents-1.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #c73930; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;" target="_blank">413 pages</a>&nbsp;of DOJ documents provided to the conservative groups Judicial Watch and the American Center for Law and Justice. Both groups had filed lawsuits for records regarding Lynch’s controversial meeting with President Bill Clinton at the Phoenix airport last June 27.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Using the pseudonym “Elizabeth Carlisle,” Lynch corresponded with DOJ press officials to hammer out talking points in response to media requests about the meeting. The tarmac encounter drew criticism&nbsp;from conservatives because Lynch was overseeing the federal investigation into whether Hillary Clinton mishandled classified information on her private email system.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The meeting was revealed not by Lynch, Clinton or the Justice Department, but by a reporter in Phoenix working based on a tip.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: white;">Lynch, using the Elizabeth Carlisle account, which was hosted on the Justice Department’s system, was also involved in those discussions. . . .</span></blockquote></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/08/obamas-attorney-general-used-fake.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-7008376291575905854Fri, 04 Aug 2017 18:02:00 +00002017-08-04T14:02:52.583-04:00RadioOn the Steve Gruber Show to discuss Democrats delaying Kevin Hassett's confirmation vote to chair the Council of Economic Advisers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I <a href="https://crimeresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SGS-20170801-Hr1Seg4.mp3">was on</a>&nbsp;the Steve Gruber show to discuss how Democrats are obstructing even non-controversial confirmations by President Trump. &nbsp;In particular, they talked about &nbsp;Kevin Hassett's confirmation to be President Trump's chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. &nbsp;The show is broadcast&nbsp;on the Michigan Talk Network. (Tuesday, August 1, 2017, from 6:45 to 6:53 AM)<br /><br />The audio is <a href="https://crimeresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SGS-20170801-Hr1Seg4.mp3">available here</a>.</div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/08/on-steve-gruber-show-to-discuss.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-4543590855906498964Tue, 01 Aug 2017 16:37:00 +00002017-08-01T16:39:59.605-04:00TaxestelevisionOn Fox Business to talk about tax cuts and the impact that they will have on investment in the US<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tY8T_ZjU74U" width="560"></iframe> <br /><a href="https://youtu.be/tY8T_ZjU74U">Appearing</a> on Fox Business. &nbsp;Dr. John Lott says optimism over tax reform is boosting the markets. &nbsp;He explains how&nbsp;money will US flood markets if we get tax cuts.</div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/08/on-fox-business-to-talk-about-tax-cuts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-7607546495257632287Mon, 31 Jul 2017 19:21:00 +00002017-07-31T15:21:20.175-04:00CrimePoliceCalifornia: Criminal penalties and arrests down, crime up<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">From The DailyWire:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/19141/california-just-proved-once-again-going-easy-james-barrett">California's latest attempt to handle one of the perpetual subjects of progressive complaint, jail and prison overpopulation supposedly caused by&nbsp;"over-incarceration," has&nbsp;proven once again what should not need re-proving: going easy on criminals results in more crime.</a>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Back in 2014, nearly 60% of Californians voted in favor of&nbsp;<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,_Reduced_Penalties_for_Some_Crimes_Initiative_(2014)" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-weight: 700; word-break: break-word;">Proposition 47</a>, which sought to thin out jails and prisons by downgrading many "nonviolent, nonserious" felonies to misdemeanors and allowing some prisoners to be&nbsp;eligible for re-sentencing&nbsp;for more lenient terms (see summary below). The measure&nbsp;ostensibly&nbsp;saved the state millions in incarceration costs, but while that particular&nbsp;budget line might look better, the state and its residents have suffered as a result. &nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Since Prop 47 went into effect, arrests are down 30% while violent crime in Los Angeles is up a devastating 40%. And it's not just L.A. — Southern California as a whole is feeling the deleterious effects of the law's "lighter" touch. &nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">A major reason for the stunning increase in violent crime&nbsp;is the&nbsp;reckless way&nbsp;Prop 47 downgraded some offenses, including theft of a firearm, which used to be a felony but which is now treated as a misdemeanor, along with several other serious property theft offenses. . . .</blockquote></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/07/california-criminal-penalties-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-2720424766578778103Mon, 31 Jul 2017 18:44:00 +00002017-07-31T14:44:11.957-04:00Canadanutty gun rulesSelfdefenseCanada: What happens when a crime victim takes a gun from a criminal and shoots him? The victim goes to jail<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Canadian man takes gun from home invaders and shoots on of them; he is now charged with attempted murder and nine other firearms charges. From the Herald News in Nova Scotia, Canada:</span></span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1487818-break-in-suspect-shot-man-in-home-charged#.WXM6Wmvlgdg.facebook">A man is charged with attempted murder and a raft of firearms offences after helping fend off home invaders, one of whom he’s now charged with shooting.</a>&nbsp;</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Kyle Earl Munroe was arrested on July 12 after RCMP and Halifax Regional Police responded to a report of a home invasion involving firearms at a home in Porters Lake.<br />Police said that three men entered the residence with guns and a struggle took place with two men inside.&nbsp;</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The two in the home seized a firearm from one of the suspects and several shots were fired as the suspects fled. Police later located one of the suspects, who had non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.&nbsp;</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Munroe faces charges of attempted murder, intent to discharge a firearm, intent to discharge a firearm when being reckless, careless use of a firearm, improper storage of a firearm, pointing a firearm, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose,&nbsp;</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">unauthorized possession of a firearm, possession of a firearm knowing that possession is unauthorized, and possession for&nbsp;the purpose of trafficking. . . .</span></blockquote><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><o:p></o:p></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><o:p></o:p></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><o:p></o:p></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><o:p></o:p></div></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/07/canada-what-happens-when-crime-victim.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-7276302596018271964Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:36:00 +00002017-07-30T16:36:46.912-04:00Donald Trumpop-edAt Fox News: Trump needs a chairman for his Council of Economic Advisers. When will Democrats let him be confirmed?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I have a new piece at Fox News on the incredibly slow confirmation process for Trump's nominees. &nbsp;Because of the delays created by the Democrats, even if Trump had nominated people as quickly as past administrations, it wouldn't have made any difference in the number of people confirmed. <br /><blockquote><div class="speakable"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/07/30/trump-needs-chairman-for-his-council-economic-advisers-when-will-democrats-confirm-tax-expert-even-liberal-economists-like.html#">It’s the middle of July, and President Trump still doesn’t have a chairman for his Council of Economic Advisers.</a> His nominee, Kevin Hassett, is a world-recognized expert on taxation, but he has been stuck on the sidelines despite tax reform being one of the administration’s big goals this year.&nbsp; He is the one person who could explain how the different parts of the tax bill fit together.&nbsp;</div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="speakable">White House advisor Gary Cohn <a href="https://www.axios.com/trumps-crumbling-agenda-2457909634.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">has reportedly told</a> associates that time is running out for tax reform.&nbsp; He worries that if tax reform doesn't get done by the end of the year, it likely won’t happen at all.&nbsp; Missing key players such as Hassett doesn’t help.&nbsp;</div></blockquote><blockquote>The delay reflects only Democrat’s unwillingness to confirm any Trump nominee.&nbsp; Hassett is not a controversial pick. &nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>The Senate Banking Committee very easily advanced Hassett’s nomination last month, with only Elizabeth Warren opposing.&nbsp; Other liberal Democrats such as Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Jack Reed (R.I.), Robert Menedez (N.J.), and Brian Schatz (Hawaii) all voted in Hassett’s favor. &nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>According to organizations such as the AFL-CIO, the League of Conservation Voters, and Americans for Democratic Action, these Senators have perfect or near-perfect liberal voting records. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was the only committee member who opposed Hassett.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>The economists who know Hassett best also support him. Forty-four&nbsp;<a href="https://medium.com/@hassett.economists.letter/letter-in-support-of-the-nomination-of-kevin-hassett-to-be-chairman-of-the-council-of-economic-78c483f9821b" rel="noopener" target="_blank">prominent economists</a>, liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans alike, signed a letter supporting Hassett’s confirmation. &nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>It read, in part, as follows: “While the signers of this letter hold a range of views on President Trump’s policies, we all believe that the formulation of economic policy would be advanced by the analysis and advice that Dr. Hassett would bring to the table.”&nbsp; They also noted Hassett’s “record of serious scholarship.”&nbsp; The signers included all of President Obama’s Council Chairmen (Jason Furman, Alan Krueger, Christina Romer, Austan Goolsbee), President Clinton’s chairs (Laura Tyson, Martin Baily), Vice President Joe Biden’s chief economist Jared Bernstein, and Obama economic advisor Mark Zandi.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>Going back to 1980, the average time to confirm a Council Chairman was 25 days. For incoming administrations such as Trump’s, which are already short-handed, the average confirmation period is 13 days, with the longest lasting 25 days.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>Hassett’s confirmation stands at 76 days and counting.&nbsp; For past incoming administrations, the chairman would have officially started his job by around February 26. &nbsp;&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>Not a single nomination to this position has ever taken anywhere near as long as Hassett’s. Some of the responsibility lies with the administration, but Democrats have done everything they can to slow down all of President Trump’s nominees.&nbsp; Demanding cloture filings for every single nominee, no matter how uncontroversial, means two days of debate before cloture can even be voted on, and then an additional 30 hours after that. . . .</blockquote>The rest of the piece is <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/07/30/trump-needs-chairman-for-his-council-economic-advisers-when-will-democrats-confirm-tax-expert-even-liberal-economists-like.html#"><strong>available here</strong></a>.</div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/07/at-fox-news-trump-needs-chairman-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-1096596363582522387Tue, 25 Jul 2017 08:17:00 +00002017-07-25T04:17:45.645-04:00Donald TrumpScoutsScouts Chant "We Love Trump!" at National Jamboree!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LSele0D2m5g" width="560"></iframe><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/07/scouts-chant-we-love-trump-at-national.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-6434476608253576586Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:00:00 +00002017-07-24T08:00:29.603-04:00ConcealedCarryNew CPRC study on concealed handgun permits: over 16.3 million Americans now have them<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato; font-size: 16px;">The CPRC has just issued our newest annual report on the number of concealed handgun permits in the US. &nbsp;A copy of the report is&nbsp;</span><a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3004915#" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b14b00; font-family: lato; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="available for download here"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">available for download he</strong><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">re</strong></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato; font-size: 16px;">. &nbsp;Some updated numbers are shown at the bottom of this post. &nbsp;Past reports can be&nbsp;</span><a href="https://crimeresearch.org/tag/annual-report-on-number-of-concealed-handgun-permits/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b14b00; font-family: lato; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;" title="viewed here"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">viewed&nbsp;here</strong></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato; font-size: 16px;">.</span></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/07/new-cprc-study-on-concealed-handgun.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-8473282395569443459Mon, 24 Jul 2017 11:00:00 +00002017-07-24T07:00:06.708-04:00On Fox Business' Varney & Co to discuss the changes in concealed handgun permits<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><br />I talked to Fox Business'&nbsp;Stuart Varney about the CPRC's <a href="https://crimeresearch.org/2017/07/new-study-16-3-million-concealed-handgun-permits-last-year-saw-largest-increase-ever-number-permits/">newest study</a> on concealed handgun permits. (Friday, July 21, 2017, from 9:16 to 9:19 AM)</div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/07/on-fox-business-varney-co-to-discuss.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-3115241356116392331Sat, 22 Jul 2017 11:30:00 +00002017-07-22T07:30:24.503-04:00pseudonymTrump judicial nominee used pseudonym in posting on political issues<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Democrats upset that Trump judicial nominee made political posts under a pseudonym.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/21/senate-narrowly-confirms-another-trump-judicial-appointee/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=Social">John Bush, President Donald Trump’s nominee for a vacancy on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, was confirmed Thursday, after a contentious battle over blog posts he wrote under a pen name.</a>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Bush’s nomination was confirmed on a 51-47 vote that followed party lines.<br />“It is good to see Bush confirmed, but dozens of judicial nominees continue to languish in the Senate, where Senate Democrats continue to obstruct and delay,” said Carrie Severino, chief counsel for the Judicial Crisis Network. Several of the president’s nominees, including Justice Joan Larsen and Justice David Stras, have not yet appeared for hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee due to Democratic obstruction.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Larsen and Stras were nominated for vacancies arising in Michigan and Minnesota. By Senate tradition, hearings for judicial nominees are not held until the senators representing states where the vacancy occurs submit their approval to the chair of the judiciary committee. Both senators from Michigan and Minnesota are Democrats. . . .&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">In&nbsp;<a href="https://elephantsinthebluegrass.blogspot.com/2008/01/legacy-from-dr-kings-dream-that.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #c73930; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;" target="_blank">a 2008 post</a>, Bush wrote that slavery and abortion are “the two greatest tragedies in our country.” In the same post, he argued that Roe v. Wade and Dred Scott v. Sanford — an 1857 Supreme Court decision which found that slaves were not citizens — “relied on similar reasoning.”&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">“John Bush’s anonymously published blog posts show that the Trump administration handpicked him to appease fringe elements of his base, individuals who share his agenda to roll back the rights of women, the LGBTQ community, and working people,” said Ilyse Hogue of NARAL Pro-Choice America. . . .</blockquote></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/07/trump-judicial-nominee-used-pseudonym.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-8624208275924169040Fri, 21 Jul 2017 11:00:00 +00002017-07-21T07:00:20.881-04:00op-edAt the Wall Street Journal: Women & Minorities Bear Arms: They are fueling growth in concealed carry permits<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I have a new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal:<br /><blockquote><a href="https://crimeresearch.org/2017/07/wall-street-journal-women-minorities-bear-arms-fueling-growth-concealed-carry-permits/">Each year brings a new record increase in the number of concealed handgun permits</a>. The rate of growth in permits among women and minorities has far outpaced growth among white men. The data paint a picture of incredibly law-abiding permit holders, the vast majority living outside America’s insular media capitals.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>A new&nbsp;<a class="icon none" href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3004915" rel="noopener" target="_blank">report</a>&nbsp;from the Crime Prevention Research Center shows that there are now more than 16.3 million concealed handgun permits in the U.S., up 1.83 million since last July. Far more people carry guns today than in 2007, when there were only 4.6 million permits. Thirteen states now no longer require a permit to carry in all or most of the state. Eight of those 13 states made the change in the last two years.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>Did the antigun agendas of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton drive demand? Maybe not. The growth in permits has hardly slowed since the election.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>Women are largely fueling the increase. Among the eight states that had data from 2012-16, permits for men grew by 22% and permits for women soared by 93%. In the 14 states with 2016 data on sex, women now make up 36% of permit holders.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>Over those same years, the number of blacks with permits increased 30% faster than the number of whites with permits. Blacks now make up 11% of permit holders. A few states provide a breakdown for Asian-Americans, and in those states they accounted for the largest percentage increase in permits.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>The numbers show how out of sync the media capitals—California, New York and the District of Columbia—are with the rest of the country. In those places, where public officials decide who get permits, only a few adults out of every thousand have permits, mostly in rural counties. In the rest of the U.S., 8% of adults have permits. People in most states don’t think twice about being surrounded by concealed carry in restaurants, theaters and stores. New Yorkers must be terrified to visit Pennsylvania, where 13% of adults have permits. In Potter County, Pa., on the New York state line, more than half of adults have a permit.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>In Los Angeles County, by contrast, as of January there were 226 permits for almost eight million adults. Only the political elite get them: judges, reserve deputy sheriffs and a small group of very wealthy, well-connected individuals. As of 2012, Hispanics made up almost half the county, but they only got about 6.5% of the permits. Women got about 7%, and blacks 5%.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>Where officials decide who gets permits, explicit death threats often aren’t enough for a law-abiding person to get one. Living in high-crime neighborhoods is considered irrelevant.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>My research has demonstrated that the two groups that benefit the most from carrying guns are the likeliest victims of crime (poor blacks in high-crime urban areas) and people who are physically weaker (women and the elderly). Dozens of published peer-reviewed studies find similar results.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>If the media elites spent more time outside their protective bubbles, they might realize how misplaced their fears of permit holders are. According to a study in Police Quarterly, criminal convictions of police are rare compared with the general public. But permit holders are convicted at less than one-sixth the rate of police officers.&nbsp;. . .</blockquote>The rest of the article is&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://crimeresearch.org/2017/07/wall-street-journal-women-minorities-bear-arms-fueling-growth-concealed-carry-permits/">available here</a></strong>.</div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/07/at-wall-street-journal-women-minorities.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-303749489810878492Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:50:00 +00002017-07-19T09:50:11.256-04:00ConcealedCarryEvaluating recent claims about permitted concealed handguns <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">There has been some recent research on permitted concealed handguns that has gotten a lot of attention. &nbsp;For those interested, a copy of our original evaluation is <a href="https://crimeresearch.org/2017/07/badly-flawed-misleading-donohue-aneja-weber-study/">available here</a> and a response to their response is <a href="https://crimeresearch.org/2017/07/responding-john-donohues-responses-evaluation-new-study/">available here</a>.</div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/07/evaluating-recent-claims-about.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-5501831095873057330Tue, 18 Jul 2017 11:00:00 +00002017-07-18T07:00:06.250-04:00VoteFraud2Vote fraud case in St. Louis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">From the Daily Caller:</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;">. . . <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/15/previously-deported-nigerian-pleads-guilty-to-ripping-off-the-us-for-12-million/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=Social">Kevin Kunlay Williams, known&nbsp;as Kunlay Sodipo when originally entering the U.S., illegally returned to the country in 1999 after being expelled&nbsp;roughly four years prior.</a>&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;. . .</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He&nbsp;also successfully registered to vote in all elections — local, state, and federal — by fraudulently claiming that he was a U.S. citizen. He ultimately voted in both the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections.</span><div class="teads-ui-components-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #aaaaaa; height: 21px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important; line-height: 21px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center !important; text-transform: uppercase !important;"></div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="1" id="google_ads_iframe_/10519169/US/US_Articles_3" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="google_ads_iframe_/10519169/US/US_Articles_3" scrolling="no" style="border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; z-index: 0 !important;" title="3rd party ad content" width="1"></iframe><br />Williams, 56, pled guilty to the specific charges of mail fraud, voter fraud,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.federalcriminallawyer.us/2011/12/08/summary-of-aggravated-identity-theft-under-federal-law/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #c73930; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px;" target="_blank">aggravated</a>&nbsp;identity theft and illegally re-entering the county after having been removed. Mail fraud carries a maximum sentence of 20 years, while aggravated identity theft has a required&nbsp;minimum sentence of two years. He also could face five years in prison for each voter fraud count, and 10 years in prison for illegal reentry. If the judge orders him to serve at least some of the sentences consecutively, Williams could easily be in jail for the rest of his life, although concurrent judgements are more likely. . . .</span></blockquote><div class="teads-inread" style="box-sizing: content-box; color: #545454; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; height: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; transition: height 0.5s;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="teads-player" id="teads0" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></div></div></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/07/vote-fraud-case-in-st-louis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-4051574389881195635Sun, 16 Jul 2017 19:00:00 +00002017-07-16T15:00:05.130-04:00op-edAt The Hill: The false claims behind the Women’s March on the NRA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I have a new op-ed at The Hill newspaper about false statements being made by the organizers of the Women's March on the NRA today and the mainstream media. &nbsp;The piece starts this way:<br /><blockquote><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/civil-rights/342033-the-hypocrisy-of-the-womens-march-on-the-nra">The Women’s March protest today at NRA headquarters was partially sparked by false allegations that the organization hasn’t defended Philando Castile — an African American and concealed handgun permit holder shot by Minnesota police officer Jeronimo Yanez</a>.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>While the March’s co-president, Tamika Mallory, <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/584086c7be6594762f5ec56e/t/5956c6e51e5b6ce66cc355c6/1498859237973/NRAopenletterFINAL.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">demands</a> that the NRA defend Castile's Second Amendment rights, she ignores statements that do just that by the gun group's female and black spokespersons.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>Perhaps the Women’s March organizers don't really want the NRA to be seen defending gun rights for blacks or any other minority groups. Rather, they want people to think of the NRA as a white supremacist organization that ignores women.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>The accusations of racism started a month ago on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. After Officer Yanez was acquitted, host Trevor Noah <a href="https://youtu.be/0IJSSBMLz6g" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">complained</a> that the NRA had been “completely silent” about the shooting. He described Castile as a “legal gun owner” who had done nothing wrong. Liberal, mainstream media publications such as the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/philando-castile-death-shows-nra-doesn-care-black-people-article-1.3265225" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New York Daily News</a> and <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/06/trevor-noah-philando-castile-nra" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Vanity Fair</a> have carried similar attacks.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>But whether one believes that Castile disobeyed the officer’s multiple orders not to reach for his gun, the NRA has been anything but silent. Right after the shooting last summer, the NRA posted that the incident was “<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/nra-finally-addresses-troubling-castile-shooting" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">troubling and must be thoroughly investigated</a>.”<br />Following last month's jury verdict, NRA national spokesperson Dana Loesch quickly declared that the acquittal was a <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/877619181511991296" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">miscarriage</a> of justice.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>More recently, Loesch <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2017/07/09/womens-march-blasts-nra-over-castile-shooting.cnn" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">told CNN on July 10</a>, “I am speaking for the NRA. Loesch went on to say: “I have spoken out on this quite a bit. I think it’s absolutely awful. I think it’s completely unfortunate. I don’t agree with every single decision that comes out from courtrooms in America. Do I believe that Philando Castile deserved to lose his life over a stop? I absolutely do not.”&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>Colion Noir, who has a popular show on NRA TV, immediately posted to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/COLIONNOIR/posts/1386059818110438" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook</a> after the ruling: “I keep asking myself, would he have done the same thing if Philando were white? As I put on my Monday morning quarterback jersey, it is my opinion that Philando Castile should be alive today. I believe there was a better way to handle the initial stop.”&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>In a video a few days later on the NRA website, <a href="https://www.nratv.com/series/commentators/video/commentators-media-fans-flames-of-racism/episode/commentators-season-6-episode-17-media-fans-flames-of-racism" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Noir said</a>: “As I watched Philando Castile dying in that car, I watched myself die, and it evoked every emotion in my body . . . [that the officer] walking away from this case a free and clear man is just wrong.”&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>If Castile was in fact reaching for his gun, that would be incredibly rare behavior for a permit holder. As a whole, permit holders are extremely law-abiding, and it is a wonderful thing that more and more blacks are choosing to protect themselves.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>But it is actually Democrats, the self-proclaimed champions of the poor, who make it so difficult for lower-income blacks to defend themselves. When it comes to voting, Democrats see free ID cards as oppressive and racially discriminatory. But when it comes to guns, <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/crime/332240-democratic-double-standard-on-crime-hurts-the-poor" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">there’s no hesitation</a> to impose fees, expensive training requirements, ID laws, and onerous background checks.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>The cops can't be everywhere at once. Indeed, they’re well aware of the fact that they almost never respond to live crime scenes. Officers know that the only solution is to let people protect themselves. . . .</blockquote>The rest of the piece is <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/civil-rights/342033-the-hypocrisy-of-the-womens-march-on-the-nra"><strong>available here</strong></a>.</div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/07/at-hill-false-claims-behind-womens.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-1697693566449373256Sun, 16 Jul 2017 11:30:00 +00002017-07-16T07:30:12.981-04:00op-edAt Fox News: "A Women's March on the NRA - but do they represent a woman's view on guns?"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I have a new piece at Fox News about the claim that there is a "women's view" on guns.<br /><blockquote><div class="speakable"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/07/13/womens-march-on-nra-but-do-represent-womans-view-on-guns.html">Is there a women’s view on guns? The organizers of the massive Women's March — which took place the day after President Trump's inauguration — are holding a protest against the National Rifle Association on Friday.</a>&nbsp; After a <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/21/womens-march-aims-start-movement-trump-inauguration/96864158/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">2.6 million</a> strong turnout in January, they have high expectations to live up to.&nbsp;</div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="speakable">But Donald Trump received a respectable 42 percent of the women’s vote, so it’s hard to say that there is “a women’s view” on guns.&nbsp;</div></blockquote><blockquote>According to an Investor’s Business Daily/TIPP poll from early <a href="http://www.investors.com/politics/policy-analysis/obama-fails-to-convince-public-on-gun-control-poll-finds/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">last year</a>, 49 percent of married women say that they or someone in their home owns a gun.&nbsp; A <a href="http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/06/06151541/Guns-Report-FOR-WEBSITE-PDF-6-21.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">new PEW survey</a> shows that 40 percent of women generally live in a home with a gun, and that almost a quarter of women personally own a gun.&nbsp; But even for those women who don’t own a gun, 45 percent say that they could see themselves as owning one at some point.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>Among female gun owners, 71 percent told PEW that they own a gun for protection, 40 percent say that all or most of their friends own guns, and 29 percent say they keep a loaded gun that is always easily accessible.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>A <a href="http://www.people-press.org/2014/12/10/growing-public-support-for-gun-rights/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">2014 PEW poll</a> found that women view gun ownership positively.&nbsp; By a 51 to 43 percent margin they said that gun ownership is more likely to protect people from being crime victims than it is to put people’s safety at risk.&nbsp; Women were more supportive of gun control than men were (54 percent for women and 37 percent for men), but women are also much more likely than men to cite violence in television and movies as contributing at least a fair amount to gun violence (64 percent vs 46 percent).&nbsp; They were also far more likely to cite violence in video games as a contributing factor (70 percent vs 49 percent).&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>So why aren’t these women marching today against violence in media and video games?&nbsp; There is much more of a “women’s view” on that issue than on gun control.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>Polls likely understate women’s gun ownership rates. . . .</blockquote>The rest of the piece is <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/07/13/womens-march-on-nra-but-do-represent-womans-view-on-guns.html"><strong>available here</strong></a>.</div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/07/at-fox-news-womens-march-on-nra-but-do.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-7034413104914575195Sat, 15 Jul 2017 18:44:00 +00002017-07-15T14:44:33.772-04:00GovernmentgovernmentwastepredationMassive government subsidies to Amazon.com and other internet retailers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This piece in the WSJ explains how the government has gotten around regulations put in place to stop them from unfairly competing against private companies.</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="color: #666666; letter-spacing: -0.01em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-post-office-gives-amazon-special-delivery-1499987531">A Citigroup analysis finds each box [Amazon ships] gets a $1.46 subsidy. It’s like a gift card from Uncle Sam.</a> . . .</span></span>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Other companies, such as&nbsp;<a href="http://quotes.wsj.com/UPS" style="color: #0080c3; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">UPS</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://quotes.wsj.com/FDX" style="color: #0080c3; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">FedEx</a>&nbsp;<span class="company-name-type" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">,</span>&nbsp;compete with the Postal Service to deliver packages. Lawmakers, to their credit, wanted a level playing field between the post office and its private competitors. The 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act made it illegal for the Postal Service to price parcel delivery below its cost.&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But with a networked business using shared buildings and employees, calculating cost can be devilishly subjective. When our postal worker delivers 10 letters and one box to our home, how should we allocate the cost of her time, her truck, and the sorting network and systems that support her? What if the letter-to-box ratio changes?</span>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In 2007 the Postal Service and its regulator determined that, at a minimum,&nbsp;<a class="icon none" href="http://www.sonecon.com/docs/studies/Study_of_USPS_Subsidies_for_Its_Competitive_Operations-Robert_Shapiro-Sonecon-October_21_2015.pdf" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 30px 30px; color: #0080c3; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">5.5%</a>&nbsp;of the agency’s fixed costs must be allocated to packages and similar products. A decade later, around 25% of its revenue comes from packages, but their share of fixed costs has not kept pace. First-class mail effectively subsidizes the national network, and the packages get a free ride. An April analysis from&nbsp;<a href="http://quotes.wsj.com/C" style="color: #0080c3; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Citigroup</a>&nbsp;estimates that if costs were fairly allocated, on average parcels would cost $1.46 more to deliver. It is as if every Amazon box comes with a dollar or two stapled to the packing slip—a gift card from Uncle Sam.</span></blockquote>For years Amazon and other companies that sold over the internet didn't pay sales taxes. &nbsp;Here is a National Conference of State Legislatures report in 2014.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://www.ncsl.org/research/fiscal-policy/collecting-ecommerce-taxes-an-interactive-map.aspx">Main Streets all across America are looking to Washington to close a loophole that gives online-only retailers an unfair advantage over their Main Street competitors.</a>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">This unfair advantage costs local communities jobs and tax revenue and creates significant unfairness in the marketplace for businesses and consumers alike.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">NCSL advocates for passage of e-fairness legislation because it levels the playing field for local businesses, which are the economic backbones of our communities that provide employment and tax revenue to fund vital services. As sales taxes account for over a third of revenues for most states, including over half of tax collections for six states, the inability to collect taxes that are legally owed constrains states’ options to reform their tax code elsewhere. This includes lowering tax rates or requiring states to raise certain tax rates to fund necessary government services.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How Did We Get Here?</strong>Two Supreme Court rulings (Bellas Hess and Quill) cite concern that collecting sales tax for multiple states would be too difficult. As it is now, the Supreme Court ruled that states can only require retailers to collect state taxes in territories where they have offices or stores.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How I</strong><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">s it Affecting&nbsp;States?</strong>States lost an estimated $23.3 billion in 2012 from being prohibited from collecting sales tax from online and catalog purchases. With nearly every state still facing budget shortfalls, this revenue could help fund police, school teachers and other much-needed programs. .&nbsp;. .</blockquote></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/07/massive-government-subsidies-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-1294224157503480870Tue, 11 Jul 2017 02:11:00 +00002017-07-10T22:11:09.447-04:00op-edFox News: Stanford law prof gets it wrong on guns: right-to-carry reduces crime, not the other way around<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I have a new op-ed at Fox News on a study that has been getting a fair amount of attention over the last couple of weeks.<br /><blockquote><div class="speakable"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/07/10/stanford-law-prof-gets-it-wrong-on-guns-right-to-carry-reduces-crime-not-other-way-around.html">Would you rely almost exclusively on trends in Hawaii to predict violent crime rates in Idaho, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, and Utah?</a> &nbsp;Would you look at Illinois to predict changes in Louisiana and South Carolina? &nbsp; Illinois has a drastically difference crime landscape, with half of its violent crime occurring in Chicago.&nbsp;</div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="speakable">Though it wouldn’t pass the laugh test for most people, an unpublished report making just these sorts of comparisons has been all the rage in the media.&nbsp; Lead author John Donohue, a professor at Stanford Law School, makes a claim which goes against existing national research: that right-to-carry laws increase violent crime.&nbsp;</div></blockquote><blockquote>The report has been covered in&nbsp;<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/nras-more-guns-less-crime-theory-debunked-new-stanford-analysis-630173" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Newsweek</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/right-to-carry-gun-violence/531297/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Atlantic</a>, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-30/the-antidote-to-the-nra-s-toxic-video" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Bloomberg</a>, other national outlets and many newspapers from <a href="http://www.newsday.com/opinion/nra-s-call-to-arms-diverts-attention-from-devastating-crime-study-1.13783139" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Newsday</a> to the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/5466984-155/francis-wilkinson-the-antidote-to-the" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Salt Lake City Tribune</a>. &nbsp;Despite outlets such as Newsweek claiming that the report “debunks” my own research, not a single reporter has contacted me for my thoughts.&nbsp; The only quotes were from gun control advocates. By contrast, those same outlets have consistently sought out critics when discussing my own research.&nbsp; Apparently, politically correct results get a free pass on proper journalistic scrutiny.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>No other study by an economist, criminologist, or law professor has claimed that US violent crime rose after right-to-carry laws were adopted.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>So the game is to find states where murder rates fell relative to the states adopting right-to-carry laws, then use that as evidence of right-to-carry laws causing an increase in violent crime.&nbsp; Before this researchers made an across-the-board comparison between states that changed their laws and states that haven’t changed them.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>This new study picks out just two to four states, and in many cases effectively just use Hawaii to compare with right-to-carry states.&nbsp; In the cases of Idaho and Minnesota, over 96 percent of the comparison is just with Hawaii.&nbsp; For Mississippi, Nebraska, and Utah, Hawaii counts for between 72 percent and 83 percent of the comparison.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote>The study claims that police simply “underestimate criminality by permit holders.”&nbsp; But Donohue's only evidence is two news stories from 2000 and 2007 where permit holders committed crimes.&nbsp; Neither story shows any failure by police to record the incidents.&nbsp; The study never mentions how large the police error rate would have to be in order to for their results to hold. . . .</blockquote>The rest of the piece is <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/07/10/stanford-law-prof-gets-it-wrong-on-guns-right-to-carry-reduces-crime-not-other-way-around.html"><strong>available here</strong></a>.<br /><a href="https://crimeresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-10-at-Monday-July-10-3.47-PM.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-16513" height="333" src="https://crimeresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-10-at-Monday-July-10-3.47-PM.png" width="237" /></a></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/07/fox-news-stanford-law-prof-gets-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-2909682029962074427Sun, 09 Jul 2017 21:46:00 +00002017-07-09T17:46:24.444-04:00ConcealedCarryBogus concealed handgun research by Donohue, Aneja, and Weber <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">For those interested, the Crime Prevention Research Center has put out a summary of some of the problems with a new study from the Stanford Law School. &nbsp;The discussion is <a href="https://crimeresearch.org/2017/07/badly-flawed-misleading-donohue-aneja-weber-study/">available here</a>. &nbsp;A brief summary is here:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="https://crimeresearch.org/2017/07/badly-flawed-misleading-donohue-aneja-weber-study/">The bottom line is pretty clear:&nbsp;Since permit holders commit virtually no crimes, right-to-carry laws can’t increase violent crime rates.</a> &nbsp;You can’t get the 1.5 to 20 percent increases in violent crime rates that a few of their estimates claim with only thousandths of one percent of permit holders committing violent crimes. &nbsp;To put it differently, states would have to be miss reporting 99%+ of crimes committed by permit holders for their results to be possible.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The synthetic control tests where they use anything from two to four states to predict the changes in another state’s violent crime rates are extremely arbitrary. &nbsp;For example, would you look almost exclusively to Hawaii to predict violent crime rate changes in Idaho, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, and Utah? &nbsp;Would you look almost exclusively at Illinois to predict changing violent crime rates in South Carolina? &nbsp;Remember that half of Illinois’ violent crime occurs in Chicago and an even larger majority of the changes in Illinois’ changing violent crime rate is due to Chicago. Would you look at California and New York to predict changing violent crime rates in Georgia?&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">There is a reason that the&nbsp;<a href="https://crimeresearch.org/2014/11/do-right-to-carry-laws-reduce-violent-crime/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b14b00; text-decoration: none;" title="vast majority">vast majority</a>&nbsp;of published peer-reviewed studies that use US data as this new study does find that right-to-carry laws reduce violent crime rates.</blockquote></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/07/bogus-concealed-handgun-research-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-8545673390416428118Tue, 04 Jul 2017 07:58:00 +00002017-07-04T04:30:47.241-04:00CampaignFinanceRegulationcensorshipDNC Deputy Chair Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) advocates Censoring President Trump's posts on Twitter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zLPzCA8UkNo" width="560"></iframe><br /><br />Doesn't advocating censorship of one's political opponents draw media outrage? <br /><br />There are a lot of questions that this raises. &nbsp;But will the media ask? &nbsp;If Democrats were in power would they use their authority&nbsp;to censor those that they disagree with? &nbsp;Does this give a different picture of these same congressmen supporting campaign finance regulations?&nbsp;</div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/07/dnc-deputy-chair-congressman-keith.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-8074085783767664550Wed, 28 Jun 2017 11:30:00 +00002017-06-28T07:30:31.235-04:00VoteFraud2It was only by luck that this case was discovered: "Student headed to prison for registering dead voters for Democrats"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">So much for there not being vote fraud. &nbsp;Combine these false voter registrations with past discussion by Democrats (the Patrick Moran case) of <a href="http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/search?q=Patrick%20Moran+">how to use them to create votes</a>. &nbsp;From CBS Channel 6 in Richmond, Virginia:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://wtvr.com/2017/06/26/andrew-spieles-guilty-plea/">A man paid to register Virginia voters prior to the 2016 Presidential Election will spend at least 100 days in prison for submitting the names of deceased individuals to the Registrar’s Office.</a>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">James Madison University student Andrew J. Spieles, 21, of Harrisonburg, pled guilty Monday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia. As part of the plea agreement, Spieles agreed to a prison sentence of 100 to 120 days.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Spieles worked for Harrisonburg Votes .&nbsp;. . . &nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Harrisonburg Votes is a political organization affiliated with the Democratic Party.<br />“In July 2016 Spieles’ job was to register as many voters as possible and reported to Democratic Campaign headquarters in Harrisonburg,” a U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesperson said. “In August 2016, Spieles was directed to combine his registration numbers with those of another individual because their respective territories overlapped. After filling out a registration form for a voter, Spieles entered the information into a computer system used by the Virginia Democratic Party to track information such as name, age, address and political affiliation. Every Thursday an employee/volunteer hand-delivered the paper copies of the registration forms to the Registrar’s Office in Harrisonburg.” . . .</blockquote></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/06/it-was-only-by-luck-that-this-case-was.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-7875518323836954450Sat, 24 Jun 2017 16:00:00 +00002017-06-24T12:00:38.561-04:00CharlesSchumerDonald TrumpFalse claims of Russia helping Trump win electionSenator Chuck Schumer repeatedly claimed that President Trump was under investigation even though he knew that was false<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FJz3SliN2eM" width="560"></iframe><br /><br />Senator Grassley (R-Iowa) points out that Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) repeatedly made false statements that he knew were false about President Trump being under investigation.</div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/06/senator-chuck-schumer-repeatedly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0